Science, like life, feeds on its own decay. New facts burst old rules; then newly divined conceptions bind old and new together into a reconciling law. The Will to Believe and Other Essays in Popular Philosophy
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Quote:- Science, my boy, is made up of mistakes, but they are mistakes which it is useful to make, because they lead little by little to the truth.
Journey to the Center of the Earth
Author:- Jules Verne
Category:- science,knowledge
Quote:- Science, my lad, is made up of mistakes, but they are mistakes which it is useful to make, because they lead little by little to the truth.
A Journey to the Center of the Earth
Author:- Jules Verne
Category:- science
Quote:- Science, not religion, became the driving force for human development and world discovery and exploitation. It is the unwise use of science, allied to the unfettered demands of a growing population, which is largely responsible for the present crisis. We need the new worldview to take us beyond the limitations of both science and religion.
Author:- Alan Sanderson
Category:- science
Quote:- Science, the agent that once promised to eradicate the supernatural, had, through the nuclear threat, resurrected it. Magic was not exactly alive, but it was surely undead.
The Horror! The Horror!: Comic Books the Government Didn't Want You to Read!
Author:- Jim Trombetta
Category:- science
Quote:- Scientia potentia est.Knowledge is power.
Leviathan
Author:- Thomas Hobbes
Category:- knowledge
Quote:- Scientific knowledge about the Universe could never be more than a tiny island in a vast sea of invincible ignorance.
Cosmogenesis: The Growth of Order in the Universe
Author:- David Layzer
Category:- knowledge,science
Quote:- Scientific People, unscientific mind; why are we dividing the world which could shine? Between religion and science, all what matters is human lives.
A Very First Book Of Poems: Heartbreak
Author:- Santosh Kalwar
Category:- science
Quote:- Scientific principles and laws do not lie on the surface of nature. They are hidden, and must be wrested from nature by an active and elaborate technique of inquiry.
Reconstruction in Philosophy
Author:- John Dewey
Category:- science
Quote:- Scientific truth was not dogma, good for eternity, but a temporal quantitative entity that could be studied like anything else
Category:- science
Quote:- Scientifically speaking, if my body is not the same as it was yesterday, then who am I?
Author:- Mwanandeke Kindembo
Category:- Life
Quote:- Scientifically, I know beginnings don't exist. The world is made of energy, which is neither created or destroyed. Everything she is was here before me. Everything she was will remain. Her existence touches both my past and my future at one point- infinity. Lifelines aren't lines at all. They are more like circles.Its safe to start anywhere and the story will curve its way back to the starting point. Eventually.In other words, it doesn't matter where I begin. It doesn't change the end.
Love and Other Unknown Variables
Author:- Shannon Lee Alexander
Category:- hope
Quote:- Scientism has done its best to undermine reason and logic. Those of us that belong to the Army of Reason have never left the battlefield. We soldier on, resisting the fierce current trying to push us back onto the shore. We do not deviate from our course. Our destination is clear. The stars shine on us. All is well with the world. The Empyrean lies before us. The fire of truth burns within us. Nothing shall ever quench it. Change is coming. The future is ours. De l’audace, encore de l’audace, et toujours de l’audace. Audacity, more audacity, and ever more audacity.
Extra Scientiam Nulla Salus: How Science Undermines Reason
Author:- Thomas Stark
Category:- motivational
Quote:- Scientism today is doing what the church did in the fifteenth century: forcing theory to fit a predetermined metaphysics.
Why Materialism Is Baloney: How True Skeptics Know There Is No Death and Fathom Answers to Life, the Universe and Everything
Author:- Bernardo Kastrup
Category:- science
Quote:- Scientists are slowly waking up to an inconvenient truth - the universe looks suspiciously like a fix. The issue concerns the very laws of nature themselves. For 40 years, physicists and cosmologists have been quietly collecting examples of all too convenient "coincidences" and special features in the underlying laws of the universe that seem to be necessary in order for life, and hence conscious beings, to exist. Change any one of them and the consequences would be lethal. Fred Hoyle, the distinguished cosmologist, once said it was as if "a super-intellect has monkeyed with physics".To see the problem, imagine playing God with the cosmos. Before you is a designer machine that lets you tinker with the basics of physics. Twiddle this knob and you make all electrons a bit lighter, twiddle that one and you make gravity a bit stronger, and so on. It happens that you need to set thirtysomething knobs to fully describe the world about us. The crucial point is that some of those metaphorical knobs must be tuned very precisely, or the universe would be sterile.Example: neutrons are just a tad heavier than protons. If it were the other way around, atoms couldn't exist, because all the protons in the universe would have decayed into neutrons shortly after the big bang. No protons, then no atomic nucleuses and no atoms. No atoms, no chemistry, no life. Like Baby Bear's porridge in the story of Goldilocks, the universe seems to be just right for life.
Author:- Paul Davies
Category:- science
Quote:- Scientists do not join hands every Sunday and sing "Yes gravity is real! I know gravity is real! I will have faith! I believe in my heart that what goes up, up, up must come down, down, down. Amen!" If they did, we would think they were pretty insecure about the concept.
Godless: How an Evangelical Preacher Became One of America's Leading Atheists
Author:- Dan Barker
Category:- science
Quote:- Scientists have calculated that the chances of something so patently absurd actually existing are millions to one.But magicians have calculated that million-to-one chances crop up nine times out of ten.
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Author:- Terry Pratchett
Category:- science
Quote:- Scientists have power by virtue of the respect commanded by the discipline... We live with poets and politicians, preachers and philosophers. All have their ways of knowing, and all are valid in their proper domain. The world is too complex and interesting for one way to hold all the answers.
Bully for Brontosaurus: Reflections in Natural History
Author:- Stephen Jay Gould
Category:- science